Operating Environment Software User Manual

Figure 25 Relationships between the applications, servers, and arrays comprising the overall SPM
environment
NOTE: Modular Smart Arrays (MSAs) are not supported in the current release of SPM.
Operations Orchestration workflows
The standard Matrix OE solution provides out-of-the-box support for HP BladeSystem c-Class servers
using Virtual Connect and the HP EVA storage solution (which can be bundled as part of HP
CloudSystem Matrix). Matrix OE is able to gather information regarding servers and perform
power operations through Virtual Connect. Matrix OE is able to gather information regarding
storage and, when used in conjunction with the HP Storage Provisioning Manager, perform
operations such as changing hostmode and LUN masking via SMI-S. In addition to this out-of-the-box
support, Matrix OE supported servers and storage can be extended via HP Operations Orchestration
(OO) workflows. The Matrix OE solution for infrastructure orchestration includes reference
implementations of OO workflows for both servers and storage.
• The server workflows included with Matrix OE include support for ProLiant and Integrity iLO2
or later servers not using Virtual Connect, and can be customized for other HP server types
as appropriate.
• The storage workflows included with Matrix OE include support for XP arrays. The workflows
demonstrate use of the XP CLI and can be customized for other storage types (for example,
EMC) or other means of interacting with storage (for example, SMI-S versus CLI).
60 Defining storage for logical servers